WORLD CUP USA '94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : ANOTHER BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISE

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

July 15, 1994 12 AM PT

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who owns the Italian league championship team, AC Milan, says he probably will not attend Sunday’s World Cup championship game.

Berlusconi has cited numerous governmental duties, including several out-of-town trips. He had promised he would attend the final if Italy advanced to the game.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

WORLD CUP USA ’94 / THE FINALS : Spotlight : ANOTHER BROKEN CAMPAIGN PROMISE

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